[1] The mechanics of slow slip events (SSE) in subduction zones remain unresolved. We suggest that SSE nucleate in areas of unstable friction under drained conditions, but as slip accelerates dilatancy reduces pore pressure p quenching instability. Competition between dilatant strengthening and thermal pressurization may control whether slip is slow or fast. We model SSE with 2‐D elasticity, ra...

The Schisandraceae family is reported to have a range of pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory effects. As with all herbal preparations, extracts of Schisandra species are mixtures composed of >50 lignans, especially schizandrins, deoxyschizandrins, and gomisins. In China, Schisandra sphenanthera extract (SSE) is often coadministered with immunosuppressant treatment of transpl...

In recent years searchable symmetric encryption has seen a rapid increase in query expressiveness including keyword, phrase, Boolean, and fuzzy queries. With this expressiveness came increasingly complex constructions. Having these facts in mind, we present an efficient and generic searchable symmetric encryption construction for phrase queries. Our construction is straightforward to implement,...

In this article we compare 14 distance measures and their modifications between feature vectors with respect to the recognition performance of the principal component analysis (PCA)-based face recognition method and propose modified sum square error (SSE)-based distance. Recognition experiments were performed using the database containing photographies of 423 persons. The experiments showed, th...

Altered trunk muscle reflexes have been observed in patients with low back pain (LBP). Altered reflexes may contribute to impaired postural control, and possibly recurrence of LBP. Specific stabilization exercise (SSE) programs have been shown to decrease the risk of LBP recurrence in a select group of patients with acute, first episode LBP. It is not known if trunk muscle reflex responses impr...

The role of damping in the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) was studied experimentally for the first time. The experiments used Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt bilayered structures where the YIG films exhibit very similar structural and static magnetic properties but very different damping. The data show that a decrease in the damping gives rise to an increase in the SSE coefficient, which is qualitatively consiste...

Efficiently tracing randomly distributed rays is a highly challenging problem on wide-SIMD processors. The MBVH (multi bounding volume hierarchy) is an acceleration structure specifically designed for incoherent ray tracing on processors with explicit SIMD architectures like the CPU. Existing MBVH traversal methods for CPUs target 4-wide SIMD architectures using the SSE instruction set. Recentl...

Grammatical evolution (GE) is one of the newest among computational methods (Ryan et al., 1998), (O’Neill and Ryan, 2001). Basically, it is a tool used to automatically generate Backus-Naur-Form (BNF) computer programmes. The method's evolution mechanism may be based on a standard genetic algorithm (GA). GE is very often used to solve the problem of a symbolic regression, determining a module's...

Gaussian filtering is a basic operation commonly used in numerous image and volume processing algorithms. It is, therefore, desirable to perform it as efficiently as possible. Over the last decade CPUs have been successfully extended with several SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extensions, such as MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE series. In this paper we introduce a new technique for Gaussian filte...